Now talking about anything on the internet your not an absolute expert on is a dangerous thing, especially in music trivia terms, and especially when you want to rap about some genre or other of world music form a place with a population in the billions, there are millions of people just dying to correct and school me. So I'm going to save myself any embarrassment and just say that in terms of Indian dance music of the early eighties, there is one producer I know of and enjoy (out of I'm sure many that existed at the time), named Bappi Lahiri. I think he is well known in back packer hip hop circles for producing a lot of indian funk backing tracks to bollywood flicks early in the seventies. Anyway, later in the day he got drum machines and synths and went to work.

The thing about bollywood classics is that these were part of the mainstream not just in india, but all over africa and asia as well. I'm not just posting these to be quirky, they are dusty sounding, abstract and dope. I always especially like the Billy Jean inspired 'Jeena Bhi Kya Hai Jeena'.

To anyone who knows this stuff, I'm not posting I'am A Disco Dancer or Jimmy Jimmy Aja, I think they got well exposed after the M.I.A cover version dropped.

Oh yeah, avoid putting things in the trunk of cabs if you can in anyway bring it with you into the back seat, as you may forget them and be bummed out at yourself all evening. Just thought I would mention.

If you do it please send it over and I will amend it to the post and transport you to international fame. Unless you already have international fame of course, in which case just do it out of the goodness of your heart.

I found the Bappi Lahiri track 'Yaad Aa Raha Hai' on a net compilation called 'Exotic Disco Volume II' and spotted the tell-tale red, yellow & black image so I thought I would speed over to you to thank you for originally posting it....I was so blown away by the track (what a vocal introduction! Sure beats any wailing western diva for emotional resonance!)....and not only did you post one but four examples of Indian electro disco funk!

It is really difficult when you don't know the language or indeed culture of a particular kind of music so its really impressive as all four tracks are excellent (I am getting into 'Eastern Bloc' late seventies/early eighties disco/electronic music and the language barrier is a nightmare!).

I lived in Bradford in England for many years in the 'Asian' part and I was probably a few hundred yards away to all this amazing music! Next time I go back and visit I am gonna score some Bappi Lahiri & Salma Agha disco action and ifI manage it you will be the first to know!

These tracks are from either the Disco Dancer soundtrack LP or the Tarzan soundtrack LP respectively, I can't remember which ones are on which though. Both these records have dollar bin status in India and are oldie pop standards that everyone knows, but are harder to find on vinyl in the west.

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